My name is Sarah, and I come from Masaka, Uganda. For many years, I believed I was living in a happy marriage with a loving family. My husband and I had plans of raising our children together and creating a comfortable home.
However, our relationship began changing when he started blaming me for giving birth to girls instead of a boy.
After I gave birth to our second daughter, I noticed a major change in my husband’s behaviour.
He began complaining repeatedly that he needed a son who would continue his family name. At first, I assumed he was simply disappointed, but with time, his words became increasingly painful and difficult for me to bear.
Whenever we talked about having another child, he would insist that I had to give him a boy. I tried telling him that the sex of a baby is not something a woman can decide or control, but he refused to accept my explanation.
His behaviour gradually made me feel unwanted, as though I was no longer valued in our marriage. Things became even more painful when he started accusing me of failing in my responsibilities as a wife.
He would compare me to other women who had given birth to sons and treated the fact that I had daughters as though it was a mistake or failure that I had personally caused.
Despite everything, I continued looking after our children and doing whatever I could to save our marriage. I kept hoping that eventually he would understand that our daughters were equally deserving of love, care and respect, and that having girls should never be considered a reason to reject a family.
Sadly, nothing I did managed to change his mind. After years of disagreements and tension in our home, my husband eventually walked away from me and our daughters. He left the family, telling me that he wanted to be with a woman who would give him a son.
His decision left me heartbroken and forced me to raise our daughters on my own while carrying the pain of rejection. What hurt me most was watching my children being made to feel as though they were somehow less important simply because they were born girls.
For a long time, I struggled with the emotional pain. I could not understand how a man who had once promised to love me could abandon his family over something that neither I nor my daughters had any power to control. During that difficult period, I opened up about my experience to a friend, who later told me about.To read more, tap here. In other news
